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Hollywood tackles bird flu

Michael Cook | 31 August 2011

Interested in the bioethics of pandemics? Triage? Duty of care? Quarantine? Informed consent? Resource allocation? Contagion, the latest epidemic disaster movie, might be a good choice for a Friday night out.

Once again, genetic engineering gets a hammering from Hollywood

Michael Cook | 03 August 2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes opens this weekend. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 83% fresh rating, but not many reviewers have seen it. From the trailer, it looks like a worthy successor in the series. What it shows is the continuing suspicion of genetic engineering in Hollywood. Has anyone seen it yet?

Foreign is as foreign does

Michael Cook | 14 May 2011

STRANGE BUT TRUE DEPARTMENT: This has almost nothing to do with bioethics – except, perhaps, to highlight the fact that there is much that we do not know about the body and the brain. An Oregon woman woke up after a trip to the dentist and found that she was speaking with a peculiar British accent. This is an instance of an exceedingly rare phenomenon called Foreign Accent Syndrome.

Is posting a joint suicide video on YouTube ethical?

Michael Cook | 07 May 2011

A future with 3-month pregnancies

Michael Cook | 26 March 2011

John Cleese on the God gene

Michael Cook | 23 December 2010

Scientific reductionism made, as you would expect, absurd

IVF bank ad sparks criticism

Jared Yee | 03 December 2010

Ad campaign criticised

The euthanasia ad which will not be shown in Australia

Michael Cook | 20 September 2010

Nitschke fails to get approval

Hollywood’s warning on designer babies

Michael Cook | 28 August 2010

New film to be released in October

A 13-year-old on euthanasia

Michael Cook | 09 March 2010

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